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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. Tones used to embellish the principal melodic tone.
Ornaments
Exposition
Major
Grandioso
2. Creating variation pitch in a note by quickly alternating between notes.
Sonatina
Vibrato
Capriccio
Tempo
3. Made up of five horizontal parallel lines and the spaces between them on which musical notation is written.
Measure
Gavotte
Staff
Accessible
4. The opening section of a piece of music or movement.
Dynamics
Introduction
Movement
Nocturne
5. A symbol in sheet music a direction to play energetically.
Sonata form
Reprise
Energico
Trill
6. A curve over notes to indicate that a phrase is to be played legato.
Etude
Slur
Nonet
Nonet
7. Combination of two or more keys being played at the same time.
Refrain
Requiem
Polytonality
Falsetto
8. Time in music history ranging from the middle of the 16th to the middle of the 17th centuries. Characterized by emotional - flowery music; written in strict form.
Tempo
Timbre
Baroque
Homophony
9. A string of chords played in succession.
Natural
Conductor
Rubato
Chord progression
10. The seventh note of the scale where there is a strong desire to resolve on the tonic.
Major
Progression
Leading note
Cavatina
11. A period in history during the 18th and early 19th centuries where the focus shifted from the neoclassical style to an emotional - expressive - and imaginative style.
Romantic
Slur
Ostinato
Clavier
12. Group of singers in a chorus.
Klangfarbenmelodie
Medley
Cadenza
Choir
13. A tempo having slow movement; restful at ease.
Tutti
Consonance
Adagio
Sonatina
14. A form of writing for vocals that is close to the manner of speech and is rhythmically free.
Stretto
Recitative
String Quartet
Suite
15. The study of forms - history - science - and methods of music.
Ricercar
Musicology
Motif
Conductor
16. First developed in the 8th century - methods of writing music.
Vibrato
Quadrille
Dynamics
Notation
17. Sliding between two notes.
Relative major and minor
Glissando
Rococo
Vivace
18. Music composed such that each note is used the same number of times.
Leading note
Oratorio
Twelve-tone music
Grave
19. A composition whose style is simple and idyllic; suggestive of rural scenes.
Leading note
Leading note
Pastoral
Impromptu
20. The unit of musical rhythm.
Orchestra
Beat
Maestro
Deceptive cadence
21. Pertaining to the fugue - the overlapping of the same theme or motif by two or more voices a few beats apart.
Stretto
Nocturne
Contralto
Tonality
22. The flats and sharps at the beginning of each staff line indicating the key of music the piece is to be played.
Canon
Interlude
Octet
Key signature
23. Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending.
Scale
Trill
Tuning
Partita
24. A dance written in triple time - where the accent falls on the first beat of each measure.
Waltz
Interval
Quartet
Sequence
25. Time signature with three beats to the measure.
Triple time
Cadenza
Harmony
Waltz
26. A whole note is equal to 2 half notes - 4 quarter notes - 8 eighth notes - etc.
Whole note
Drone
Clavier
Unison
27. A reprise.
Counterpoint
Recapitulation
A cappella
Opera
28. The piece of cane in wind instruments. The players cause vibrations by blowing through it in order to produce sound.
Rococo
Timbre
Reed
Ricercar
29. A musical form where the melody or tune is imitated by individual parts at regular intervals. The individual parts may enter at different measures and pitches. The tune may also be played at different speeds - backwards - or inverted.
Slur
Tonality
Verismo
Canon
30. A combination of two or more staves on which all the notes are vertically aligned and performed simultaneously in differing registers and instruments.
Progression
System
Tonality
Consonance
31. A contrapuntal song written for at least three voices - usually without accompaniment.
Triplet
Madrigal
Sonata
Slide
32. Closing section of a movement.
Courante
Slide
Leitmotif
Coda
33. Music written for a lively French dance for two performers written in triple time.
Galliard
Movement
Soprano
Fugue
34. Two or three melodic lines played at the same time.
Modes
Prelude
Development
Counterpoint
35. Refers to the tuning of an instrument.
Temperament
Reprise
Chant
Tempo
36. A composition written for three voices and instruments performed by three people
Tritone
Motif
Trio
Fifth
37. Often used in overtures - a composition that uses passages from other movements of the composition in its entirety.
Tutti
Medley
Introduction
Gavotte
38. A composition written for a solo instrument. The soloist plays the melody while the orchestra plays the accompaniment.
Sextet
Concerto
Trio
Ornaments
39. A form of music written for marching in two-step time. Originally the march was used for military processions.
Parody
March
Pastoral
Ensemble
40. Movement in music where the characteristics are crisp and direct.
Reed
Progression
Polytonality
Neoclassical
41. A melodic or - sometimes a harmonic idea presented in a musical form.
Recital
Theme
Tune
Octet
42. In sheet music - an instruction to repeat the beginning of the piece before stopping on the final chord.
Orchestra
Sonata form
Da Capo
Instrumentation
43. A musical style characterized as excessive - ornamental - and trivial.
Counterpoint
Piano
Triple time
Rococo
44. Word to indicate the movement or entire composition is to be played gracefully.
Rigaudon
Grazioso
Waltz
Sextet
45. Slow and stately dance music written in triple time.
Minuet
Sonata
Opera
Tritone
46. Either of the two octave arrangements in modern music. The modes are either major or minor.
Dynamics
EnharmonicInterval
EnharmonicInterval
Modes
47. A short piano piece - often improvisational and intimate in character.
Impromptu
Musicology
Prelude
Gavotte
48. An instrumental lament with praise for the dead.
Progression
Elegy
Counterpoint
Energico
49. The intonation - pitch - and modulation of a composition expressing the meaning - feeling - or attitude of the music.
A cappella
Etude
Tone
Triple time
50. A set of six musicians who perform a composition written for six parts.
Polyphony
Beat
Sextet
A cappella